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The Journey of the Spiritual Activist: An Interview with Marisa Handler

Have Fun - Do Good

I think that in an age where what we're facing often seems very vast and faceless - huge institutions, corporations, or undemocratic governments - I think that the real answers don't so much lie in, they can, but not always, big ticket solutions. In terms of my own life, as I write in Loyal to the Sky , I grew up in apartheid South Africa.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art.

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Balancing People, Profit & Planet: An Interview with Reem Rahim of Numi Tea

Have Fun - Do Good

I am an artist and I was getting my Masters of Fine Arts at the time from John F. Another garden, also in India, has put money into either retirement funds, because the government doesn't give that to them, and funds for parents with disabled children. Britt: Your training is as a fine artist. Kennedy University.

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Data, Data Everywhere: But How Does It Relate to You and Your Work?

Tech Soup

It is being used and analyzed by the media, the private sector, governments, and civil society organizations to inform their decisions. And so are the ways in which governments, civil society. with geeks, artists, and civil society activists. technology geek, statistician, and government official though civil.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. I sort of started my journey wanting to be an artist, and my mother told me I was too smart for art. First of all, who identifies with the word "activism"? Can I just see?

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